Yeah this looks like FBOOK_SESSION=824475u2#@87uhuanotuhaLFFF and then facebook invalidates the session, you are now logged out. Logging out is that simple: invalidate the session data. Seems like someone decided to mark the session "Logged Out" instead of just deleting it.

I was just trying to point out the "Hey, hey, look at this huge issue!" (as if you're facebook information wasn't going to leak eventually anyway, doesn't everyone understand that once it's on the internet, it's there to stay?). And, the response, "Oh, no, no. That's not and issue." (Then duck off and go fix it.)

The part where that argument falls apart for me is that Facebook can track the behavior for a logged in cookie separately from a logged out cookie. So they can sell both the 'this is what logged in users look like' and the 'this is what users computers look like'. That they would not be using the data in the way that it is most valuable to them is basically preposterous (for a variety of reasons; they are interested in money, they have a large amount of technical talent, etc.).

Who's worse? markz for building such a shitty product that treats people like crap. OR. all the millions of users who signed up for such a shitty product. And continue to use it no matter what scummyness comes to light....

I predict humanity will do well in its ventures of continued existence.

here's the thing... NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR DATA, you are not important, you are not special, your browsing habits are not unique, you do not frequent sites that make people care about your data, and even that it wouldn't be FB that cared:)

Then why track? Care to explain? I see hundreds of sites tracking every click and every mouse-over I make. Hell there are business models that solely depend on tracking people.

Statistics, targeted marketing, marketing trends. Traffic, how many people go to amazon after google type stuff. There is a lot more money in selling your product to a targeted market than to the world wide web make sense? It doesn't have your name on it, just your IP, they can't hack you via a cookie, so your IP is essentially useless unless your run open ports on your router w no firewall, but again fb is the least of your concerns at that point.

The issue that I'm having is the reverse of what you guys are talking about. Apparently with the new timeline update or whatever the hell they're calling it, Facebook will integrate with certain websites such that if I go to an enabled site, it's automatically posted to my timeline that I went there.

Dunno about you guys, but I don't necessarily want all of my fb friends list potentially seeing every site I go to. I signed up for Facebook to keep in contact with people that I don't get to see on a regular ba

I don't use facebook apps, so that's not a concern. And I already have ABP installed, though I don't remember putting those filters in place.

That said, I'm just going to shutter my account at Facebook. I shouldn't have to jump through special hoops to keep Facebook from blabbing details about me that I do NOT choose to share on Facebook. That, and Facebook is quite famous for changing privacy settings, requiring you to make even more changes to opt out of privacy invasions. I have little doubt that once eno

Until your old enough to have domain admin access over them, then you state "gtf in the locker or i make the systems work 1/2 the time for you preventing you from doing your job causing your delayed termination, you also beat your own ass while your at it".:P

the problem is, is that I, personally, am going to buy something when I am ready to buy it and only if I have decided that I want it. Seeing an ad(i have firefox adblock, flashblock, noscript so i dont see ads anyway but let's assume that i did) isn't going to make me want to buy a watch that I wasn't intending on buying, buying a watch that I was thinking about buying or buy a watch faster if i know that i really need one and it most likely wouldn't be the same brand watch anyway because i don't buy based

"Stupid users," I thought. "I have to protect them from themselves." I poured back another shot of bourbon. The moonlight crept through the window of my office. I do a lot of my work at night.

It had been a quiet day. Some broad had come in begging for me to find out if her husband was cheating on her. Unfortunately, I couldn't take the case. Her husband was a buddy of mine from the force. I told her to look on Facebook. Joe never was too bright, like most of the earthly scum I surround myself with. He'd pro

First off we never did it, secondly we've stopped doing it. If I am ever taken to court for theft that's what I'll try, "Your honor first of all I never stole anything, secondly I just gave it all back and won't do it again".

First off we never did it, secondly we've stopped doing it. If I am ever taken to court for theft that's what I'll try, "Your honor first of all I never stole anything, secondly I just gave it all back and won't do it again".

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to Like it, does it matter?

At this point not using the net isn't particularly feasible. And it's getting worse as more and more essential services move to it. It used to be that everything that one legitimately needed to do had an offline equivalent, but the direction things are flowing that might not be the case for much longer.

And even where one doesn't have to be online to do something, it's often times significantly faster to use the online equivalent rather than doing it offline. Not to mention things like statements where banks

They don't need cookies anyway. There are a lot of other ways to track you without a cookie. As long as we download all those "like" buttons from the webpages we visit they get to track us. The cookie would just make the tracking a little bit easier.

yep. Don't need a cookie, don't need to ever be affiliated with facebook or have ever signed up. If that like button is tracked on a website that also has other personal info associated (maybe even your first name), you just got linked to every other linked website and so on. Basically, advertisers know far more than just "simon S2 visited a website".

Exactly. Most people's browsers send up enough information to every site you visit that you can be uniquely identified--or at least narrowed down to a very small sample. Even when you aren't logged in, Facebook can correlate that browser data with known profiles and figure out who you are without much trouble.